Code of the day · 2026-12-25
Friday · 15 Tevet 5787
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
The one who said 'I am slow of speech' — and led the people out. The Torah calls him the humblest of all men on earth.
The Arizal's principal student. Everything known of his teacher's doctrine is known because Vital wrote it down.
He turned a telescope to the sky and saw Jupiter's moons. He insisted on what he had seen and spent his last years under house arrest.
What connects them
All three are remembered for words: spoken, written or performed — and the words outlived them.
Three points define a plane: a structure that no longer wobbles. A day to fix what has been reached rather than look for a fourth support.
What is the thing you have long thought but never once said out loud?
How the small number works: the digits are added until one remains. Non-Hebrew names are written in Hebrew letters by ordinary transliteration; variants exist, and the number depends on the spelling. We show the letters so it can be checked. This is a coincidence of counting, not a claim about fate. It is interesting exactly insofar as you can see how it was counted.
How it is obtained
15 + 411 = 426 · total
This week's portion
Vayechi ויחי
This Hebrew date across 301 years
A Torah word with this number
This happens more often than the meeting does: measured, the number of the week and the number of the date meet on roughly one day in three. Saying so plainly is the method.
A name from this week's portion
This figure acts in the portion read this week. Their number is shown alongside — with no claim that it matches anything.
Psalms of the day
Under the customary division of the book of Psalms across the thirty days of the month, today's reading is 77-78.
Text: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0. The four-letter Name is not printed in our output and is replaced by ה׳.
Reading of the reduced number
Three points define a plane: a structure that no longer wobbles. A day to fix what has been reached rather than look for a fourth support.
What follows is an interpretation, not a calculation. The reduced number comes from adding the digits; everything else on this page can be checked, and this cannot.
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Text and morphology: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0. Calendar and portion boundaries: hebcal. Memorial dates follow tradition or the sources noted with each entry.